Coaching Call with educator Kristina Jareno

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Coaching Call with educator Kristina Jareno

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Automated Transcript:

Jonathan (00:00:00):
Hello, and welcome to ditching hourly. I'm Jonathan Stark. And today I'm joined by guest Kristina Jareno. Did I say that right?

Kristina (00:00:09):
Almost... Jareno.

Jonathan (00:00:10):
My apologies. Um, so Kristina, could you tell folks a little bit about who you are and what you do?

Kristina (00:00:17):
Sure. Um, hi everyone. I am a mom. I, my daughter is four I'm born and raised in long beach, California. I am starting a homeschool co-op and I am also an intern trainers and entertainer. So I make films and music and I've reached out to John to help me, um, regarding both of these industries and how to play hourly billing to both.

Jonathan (00:00:45):
Yes. Okay, great. Um, so let's, so you sent an email, thanks for that. And you talked, um, let's focus on the schooling piece first because I think that's, um, that's, uh, I could be wrong, but I feel like that one has more moving parts. So why don't you give folks a little bit of a backstory on how you came to put that together? What, what need you feel like it's addressing or you want it to address?

Kristina (00:01:11):
Sure. Um, so my daughters for a couple of years ago around when she was two, um, I started having the itch to really quote unquote, get back to my career, um, or just have help with childcare so that I could have some me time as a mom. Um, so I started researching different daycares and preschools in schools, and that journey led me to tour like, you know, over 25 to 30 schools in Los Angeles. And this was like Montessori, organic daycares, Waldorf Reggio, progressive private schools, like elementary on. And I didn't know what I was looking for at the time I was looking for emotional safety. I was looking for, um, I was also looking for parent education and that journey led me to starting my own co-op um, you know, uh, we'll be working with, uh, uh, Ryan associates and PT instructor to kind of help all the parents. Um, and that's kind of how I, I ended up coming to starting it over at the end of this two year journey is really out of necessity just because I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Jonathan (00:02:26):
Hmm. Okay. So can you drill into those? You use two terms though. I'm not familiar with Bri associate and PDT.

Kristina (00:02:35):
Um, so arise associate rise stands for resources for infant educators. And I found out about raw resources for infant educators. Um, actually from one of the co-ops that I, um, was touring. And when I found them, my daughter was too young to enroll at the time and I didn't want to wait a whole year to start getting, um, you know, educated as a parent. The reason why I liked them was because did like monthly workshops and it was parent participation. So parents were really, really, really, really involved in given support and guidance and that's what I was craving. And so I asked them if there were any podcasts or resources or books, people to, to look out for, um, just to get started. And they recommended Janet Lansbury as podcasts and resources for infant educators, which I think is one of the, kind of more becoming more mainstream approaches to respectful parenting.

Kristina (00:03:30):
Um, and then parent effectiveness training is also another approach that some rye associates, um, recommend for after age two, because resources for in financial cares is more for infants and up to age two. So after age two, when they start getting more conversational, they want, uh, collaborative problem solving is more required. And like in a conscious awareness of your, uh, abuse or lack of abuse of, of your authority and power is more required. So PT is really, really great. It stands for parent effectiveness training and it was created by, uh, Thomas Gordon. Who's a psychologist that was nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Right. So, um, those two approaches were like the main things that I sunk my teeth into in addition to self directed education, which I think I saw on one of your videos, you're also a homeschooler, always willing parents. Yup. Cool. You, it,

Jonathan (00:04:31):
So, okay. So now you, uh, you weren't finding what you were looking for, so you decided to, uh, take a leadership role and put something together. What, and you said it was, uh, a co-op. So can you kind of, that's all a black box to me. So can you kind of describe what that structure means? I mean, I have a vague, vague understanding of what co-op like food market is, but like what, what's the structure, if you could just make it kind of more tangible for me?

Kristina (00:05:02):
Yeah. Um, well, uh, from what, from what I know from the preschools that I've toured and I've toured a few different co-ops here in LA, um, it's basically parents, uh, it's like a preschool, um, where parents can volunteer in the classroom, um, to be more involved and kind of witnessed what their child is being exposed to from the education standpoint to the people, teaching them to the other families that are involved and their children. Um, so it's basically parents coming together. Um, usually the premise of it is if parents are volunteering, then there's more resources in the classroom. Um, and there, that means that your tuition is going to be, I don't know, cheaper. Um, although I've found that some co some parent participation clubs and preschools, they can, even if they're both high end or depending on what their product is or what, you know, education being the product, the quality of the education or the, um, the environment they're providing, it could be like the same price anyway. So, um, but it's basically parents coming together as a village and, um, collaborating with each other, arranging for childcare, with a lead teacher, like a director and other lead teachers.

Jonathan (00:06:30):
Okay. Yeah. Okay. That, that clicks with me because, uh, there are homeschool organizations around here that have a similar sort of thing like that. They, yeah. That, you know, it's kind of like, um, volunteer to teach, uh, Oh, you know, how to play violin. Could you teach a violin class, that kind of stuff, you know, for, not for, uh, preschoolers, but, um, so sort of similar sort of, yeah, I sort of get the idea. And then it's a question of, um, I'm kind of stuck on the, I'm kind of stuck at the beginning where you were like, I was looking, you know, this, this small child and I'm looking for some meantime, but now you're going to be with the, with the kid, all the kids anyway, um, is this is really for parents, for parents who don't work or what's, what's the, is it,

Kristina (00:07:21):
So the structure of what the unicorn is thing that I'm creating? Yeah. I can go straight into it. Um, well, the reason why I'm creating this, this thing, and this is, it's like a preschool club, except that when the child, when any of the children turn age six, they will, they, all they have to do is file a PSA. Um, and then, which is the private private school affidavit. And that's for you to legally become like, uh, uh, an unschooler, I should say, or like a homeschool, or if you want more control, because if you don't have a PSA and you're a homeschooler, then that means that you're going to adhere to the state mandated curriculum, um, through different, through a charter, like I lead or inspire or whatever.

Jonathan (00:08:06):
I believe that's different from state to state, but that's how it happened.

Kristina (00:08:10):
Yeah. Sorry in California here. Um, that's how it is. Um, so it's kind of like, um, world schooling or unschooling together type of a thing. And it's really attachment based becaus...